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Mary Fahey Colbert

The New Atlantis » The Myth of Multitasking - 0 views

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      This whole article is full of names of people who have done studies on the adverse effects of multitasking on learning.  Come back and chase down some of these studies.
  • In one recent study, Russell Poldrack, a psychology professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, found that “multitasking adversely affects how you learn. Even if you learn while multitasking, that learning is less flexible and more specialized, so you cannot retrieve the information as easily.”
  • Also, “sensation-seeking” personality types are more likely to multitask, as are those living in “a highly TV-oriented household.” The picture that emerges of these pubescent multitasking mavens is of a generation of great technical facility and intelligence but of extreme impatience, unsatisfied with slowness and uncomfortable with silence: “I get bored if it’s not all going at once, because everything has gaps—waiting for a website to come up, commercials on TV, etc.” one participant said. The report concludes on a very peculiar note, perhaps intended to be optimistic: “In this media-heavy world, it is likely that brains that are more adept at media multitasking will be passed along and these changes will be naturally selected,” the report states. “After all, information is power, and if one can process more information all at once, perhaps one can be more powerful.” This is techno-social Darwinism, nature red in pixel and claw.
Mary Fahey Colbert

Joanne Cantor: The Bad News about Multitasking - YouTube - 0 views

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    Watch this later.  It might be a good video to show students about the downsides of multitasking.  Joanne Cantor has other ones with actual "exercises" for addressing multitasking.
Mary Fahey Colbert

Students and the stress of Multitasking - HOME - Edgalaxy: Where Education an... - 0 views

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    Good resource for me for ideas and lesson plans as well as another source for my paper.  The pictorial flow chart about what happens to the brain while multitasking and how information overload occurs is simple and clear.  It will be another good source to share with students.
Mary Fahey Colbert

Amazon.com: The Overflowing Brain: Information Overload and the Limits of Working Memor... - 0 views

  • As the pace of technological change accelerates, we are increasingly experiencing a state of information overload. Statistics show that we are interrupted every three minutes during the course of the work day. Multitasking between email, cell-phone, text messages, and four or five websites while listening to an iPod forces the brain to process more and more informaton at greater and greater speeds. And yet the human brain has hardly changed in the last 40,000 years. Are all these high-tech advances overtaxing our Stone Age brains or is the constant flood of information good for us, giving our brains the daily exercise they seem to crave? In The Overflowing Brain, cognitive scientist Torkel Klingberg takes us on a journey into the limits and possibilities of the brain. He suggests that we should acknowledge and embrace our desire for information and mental challenges, but try to find a balance between demand and capacity. Klingberg explores the cognitive demands, or "complexity," of everyday life and how the brain tries to meet them. He identifies different types of attention, such as stimulus-driven and controlled attention, but focuses chiefly on "working memory," our capacity to keep information in mind for short periods of time. Dr Klingberg asserts that working memory capacity, long thought to be static and hardwired in the brain, can be improved by training, and that the increasing demands on working memory may actually have a constructive effect: as demands on the human brain increase, so does its capacity. The book ends with a discussion of the future of brain development and how we can best handle information overload in our everyday lives. Klingberg suggests how we might find a balance between demand and capacity and move from feeling overwhelmed to deeply engaged. Show More Show Less
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    As the pace of technological change accelerates, we are increasingly experiencing a state of information overload. Statistics show that we are interrupted every three minutes during the course of the work day. Multitasking between email, cell-phone, text messages, and four or five websites while listening to an iPod forces the brain to process more and more informaton at greater and greater speeds. And yet the human brain has hardly changed in the last 40,000 years. Are all these high-tech advances overtaxing our Stone Age brains or is the constant flood of information good for us, giving our brains the daily exercise they seem to crave? In The Overflowing Brain, cognitive scientist Torkel Klingberg takes us on a journey into the limits and possibilities of the brain. He suggests that we should acknowledge and embrace our desire for information and mental challenges, but try to find a balance between demand and capacity. Klingberg explores the cognitive demands, or "complexity," of everyday life and how the brain tries to meet them. He identifies different types of attention, such as stimulus-driven and controlled attention, but focuses chiefly on "working memory," our capacity to keep information in mind for short periods of time. Dr Klingberg asserts that working memory capacity, long thought to be static and hardwired in the brain, can be improved by training, and that the increasing demands on working memory may actually have a constructive effect: as demands on the human brain increase, so does its capacity. The book ends with a discussion of the future of brain development and how we can best handle information overload in our everyday lives. Klingberg suggests how we might find a balance between demand and capacity and move from feeling overwhelmed to deeply engaged.  
Mary Fahey Colbert

'Internal Chatter' Limits Multitasking As People Age : NPR - 0 views

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    This is a good one for an overview of why we are bettter at multitasking at different ages, because of our ages.  Interesting.
Mary Fahey Colbert

Joanne Cantor: Multitasking exercises - YouTube - 0 views

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    Another clip to watch later that might be helpful for impressing kids with the reason not to multitask while trying to learn.
Mary Fahey Colbert

Title:Taking on multitasking: students will continue to media multitask--to their own d... - 0 views

  • Therefore, the impairing effect of multitasking upon learning may be related to reduced brain resources that are available to satisfactorily complete tasks when they're tried together.
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    This looks promising for my research. Come back and read later.
Mary Fahey Colbert

Have Technology and Multitasking Rewired How Students Learn? - 0 views

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    This is a practical look at technology's usefulness in the classroom.  It addresses the idea of multitasking and working memory.
Mary Fahey Colbert

The Millennial View-Don't Be: "Young & Distracted" | Management Excellence by Art Petty - 0 views

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    This blog post is by a "millenial" about some of his peers who are multitasking non-productively in the workplace.  This advice also applies to students in the classroom. 
Mary Fahey Colbert

Stress of Multi-Tasking | OOHLALA Mobile - 2 views

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    This is a great inforgraphic to include to illustrate how we can "show" students what happens when they multitask.
Mary Fahey Colbert

DOAJ -- Directory of Open Access Journals - 0 views

  • his experimental study suggests that students who IM while reading will perform as well but take longer to complete the task than those who do not IM while reading or those students who IM before reading.
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    Another research finding that suggests multitasking while doing school work takes students longer to accomplish.  Add this research to that argument.
Mary Fahey Colbert

Multitasking has negative effect on student academic work | Social Media in Higher Educ... - 0 views

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    This article comes from an Academic Journal.
Mary Fahey Colbert

I Said, 'Not While You Study!' - 0 views

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    Another article about the downsides of multitasking, which sites some good research studies.
Mary Fahey Colbert

Multitasking Behaviors Mapped to the Prefrontal Cortex: National Institute of Neurologi... - 0 views

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      I wonder if this is the same study referenced in the National Geo article about the teenage brain.  Check this.
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    Tasks performed by the volunteers involved exercises to test working memory, attentional focus, and a combination of the two. All of the subjects, who were healthy, normal volunteers, participated in all of the task groups. The task groups consisted of a control task, a delayed-response task, a dual-task, and a branching conditions task. Dual-task involves changing focus between alternative goals successively. The investigators predicted that subject performance on the individual delayed-response task and dual-task conditions would not activate the FPPC. They did predict that the branching task which involves problem solving and planning would stimulate activity in the FPPC. According to the fMRI data, their predictions were correct. The FPPC was activated only during those tasks that involved an interaction between working memory and attentional focus decisions.
Mary Fahey Colbert

JSTOR: Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, Vol. 52, No. 6 (Mar., 2009), pp. 471-481 - 0 views

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    Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20468390 Good article to sum up an overall picture of the goal of teaching students media literacy.
Mary Fahey Colbert

How Multitasking Affects Human Learning : NPR - 0 views

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    UCLA psychology professor Russell Poldrack
Mary Fahey Colbert

JSTOR: The Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 92, No. 4 (DECEMBER 2010/JANUARY 2011), pp. 8-14 - 0 views

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    Another Nicholas Carr article about distraction.
Mary Fahey Colbert

How the New Generation of Well-Wired Multitaskers Is Changing Campus Culture - Technolo... - 0 views

  • Jazzing Up Lectures Question: Are you comfortable with a lecture style that is just a guy speaking to you, or do you think that colleges should add more flair or more pizzazz to lectures through video and PowerPoint, electronic stuff, and so on? Laura: Well, with the professor just lecturing to you it can get boring, so I think they need to. If they do not already have flair, they need to just add a little more instead of just lecturing notes. Deanna: I agree with her 100 percent. When there is a teacher lecturing to you in the front of the room, it is really boring. You do not get involved, and you tend to kind of zone out the whole time. I need more bells and whistles to keep my attention. Anthony: I think what they really should look at is how businesses are doing business because the student could say they want to learn a certain way, but if business is not working like that, they might not be prepared to actually go into the work force. So I think you definitely need to look at what the corporate world is doing and try to match with them in some ways. Going Out Into the Real World Question: How many of you think that when you get out into the work world and you are reaching your sort of earning potential, how many of you think you are going to make more money than your parents did? And do you think you will work as hard as they do? John: I definitely think we are going to be working more than our parents simply because of the integration of technology and the tools that we are required to learn and use in everyday business. ... Technology being there is going to force us to be more productive, so in an eight-hour day we are expected to do four, five, six times as much. Question: But the tool that was supposed to get rid of work makes work.
Mary Fahey Colbert

Digital Nation - Life On The Virtual Frontier | FRONTLINE | PBS - 0 views

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    A TV/Web report on the digital revolution and how it's changing our lives, with video stories, interviews, and user-generated video on relationships, information overload, education, the military, parenting, brain development, and more. Be a part of Digital Nation and tell us your story. Airs winter 2010.
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